With some time and creativity, librarians in Spokane, Wash., grew a Great Depression exhibit into a suite of programs, including a "museum" and a DIY class series to show how people in the 1930s made do on a shoestring.

Inspired by Neil Armstrong’s famous words upon stepping onto the moon’s surface, we embark on a blog series intended to help library patrons – even the small ones – take giant leaps in discovering our universe.